MLK 50 Years Ago: ‘A Just Law Is a Man-Made Code That Squares With the Moral Law or the Law of God’

MLK 50 Years Ago: ‘A Just Law Is a Man-Made Code That Squares With the Moral Law or the Law of God’

Fifty years ago, on Good Friday 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was arrested in Birmingham, Ala., for participating in a march against local segregation laws in violation of a state court order prohibiting civil rights activists from staging peaceful protests in that city.

While incarcerated, King wrote an open later to a group of clergymen who had objected to his march.

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